Daily Bible Portion (Saturday)
Daily Bible Portion - 7 of 7
"SEE"
(Weekly Reading>>Deuteronomy 11:26-16:17, Isaiah 44:11-45:5, 1 Corinthians 5:9-13, 1 John 4:1-6)
Yeshua/Jesus, the Lamb slain from before the creation of the world, is serving in a heavenly Tabernacle. He is the sacrifice that now lives in us. Today, we represent His heavenly Tabernacle on earth. The Tabernacle is a representation of the Covenant given to David. Because of this, we are part of the Davidic Covenant Yeshua renewed and when we partake in the bread and wine as a remembrance of that Covenant our tithe should also be presented. We are not to separate the bread, the wine and the tithe. They are eternal and carry an eternal blessing for those who obey (Hebrews chapters 7-9).
Currently less than 2.7% of believers are remembering to tithe on a regular basis. Not giving the tithe is one of the blockages that prevent Yahweh’s blessings from flowing in our lives (Malachi 3:8-10). We are of the royal priesthood of the Messiah, and as priests offering sacrifices, partaking in the bread and the wine are a confirmation to the Covenant that we have agreed to live by. We are His dwelling place. May believers be faithful to this priesthood calling and bring our holy tithes and offerings to HIM, Yeshua Ha Mashiach/Jesus Christ.
It is up to us to keep our hearts clean and stay pure in thought and deed. This releases Yahweh to position us into holiness by His Spirit (1 Corinthians 1:30). It is a sacrifice to forgive someone who has hurt and wronged us. It is a sacrifice to offer our self to someone in need. It is a sacrifice to love someone who does not love us in return. May we worship the Father in Spirit and in Truth, and may our tithe be offered from our hearts with joy (John 4:19-24).
The Feasts of Yahweh
All Yahweh’s feasts are prophetic and are appointments of time where He has said He will meet with us.
The Spring Feasts come first, beginning in the first month of the biblical Hebrew calendar called Aviv during the first barley harvest. We are to celebrate the Passover on the same eve as when the Israelites left Egypt. It is a night of perpetual remembrance, a time when together we are to eat roasted lamb, unleavened bread and bitter herbs, and share the story of the Exodus of our ancestors. It is the time when Yeshua/Jesus also chose His Bride, as it is a type of our salvation/deliverance. The Feast of Unleavened Bread starts after Passover and continues for seven days. The first and last days of this Feast are to be High Holy Days, Sabbaths unto Yahweh. This is a holy time, a time of remembering Yahweh’s redemption, as Yeshua is our Sacrificial Passover Lamb who paid the price for our redemption and became the Firstfruits from the dead. In Yeshua we all are now His firstfruits from the dead (Colossians 3:1-17).
Believers are instructed to count seven weeks, seven Sabbaths numbering 49 days weeks after the Passover. On the next day on Yahweh’s calendar called Feast of Weeks or Shavuot (Pentecost). This Feast is where Moses received the Torah on Mount Sinai, the moral and ethical instructions for the Children of Israel. This is the official Marriage Covenant/ketubah called the Gospel for His betrothed Bride. When Moses returned to camp with the ketubah he saw the newly betrothed Bride worshipping God through the form of an idol - a golden calf. That day three thousand died. On this same Feast Day, thousands of generations later, Yeshua fulfilled Yahweh’s Word by writing the Torah onto the tablets of their hearts by His finger of authority (principles). In this way He fulfilled the prophesy in Jeremiah 31 (repeated in Hebrews 8:8-10). On that day three thousand were restored (Acts 2).
Following the Spring appointed times, there are three Fall appointed times on Yahweh’s calendar all in the seventh month on the Biblical Hebrew calendar, called Tishrei. Both Houses of Israel (the House of Judah and those sojourning with them and the House of Israel and their companions) are waiting for the fulfillment of these appointed times(appointments) with great anticipation, as these last three Holi-days(Holy Days) are the call of the Bridegroom beckoning His Bride to come to her wedding.
The New Moon/Rosh Chodesh festival falls on the first day of each month at the sighting of the new moon. It is the New Moon that reminds the Bride (believers walking in their redemption), of all her appointments with her husband. On each New Moon, Yahweh has His trumpets(shofar) sound to call the Bride to prepare for Him. It will be at the last trumpet that the announcement/cry has been made that the Bridegroom has come for His Bride!
The Fall appointed times start with Day of Trumpets or the Day of Blowing. The Jewish (Judeans / House of Judah) people have replaced it with Rosh Ha Shannah, a manmade(tradition) celebration of their secular New Year, which has nothing to do with Yahweh’s appointed time of Trumpets nor the true biblical New Year which is in the first month during spring according to scripture not the seventh month.
Day of Trumpets falls on the first sighting of the seventh New Moon/Rosh Chodesh and heralds in the Bridegroom by the blowing of Trumpets. The expectant Bride has been walking in all the appointments and Covenants and has plenty of extra oil for her lamp. All spots or wrinkles (personal sins) have been cleansed and removed, and her priestly wedding garment made ready. She checks her heart and makes right any adjustments before her wedding day. No one knows the exact day or hour of the Groom’s return, only the Father knows but we do know the time and season. Interesting that Trumpets is the only Feast day which lands on a "New Moon" which can last for two or three days as the case this year but when He commands that last new moon to appear and the last trump to cry out– the doors will open for the approaching King/Bridegroom. The Bride, having her sanctification process complete, is ready to take her lamp and proceed out to meet Him. Ten days of awe and perfection are fulfilled as the two come together to take their place (Matthew 25:1-13; Revelation 19:7-9).
The tenth day of the seventh month is the Day of Atonement. It is the holiest day of the year representing the wedding day where believers will all appear before Yahweh. The Bride has made herself ready. She has been faithful to personally prepare her heart/white linen garments before the last trumpet sounded. Unfortunately there will be some Brides lacking oil (wisdom, sanctification and holiness) who leave just before the wedding takes place to buy extra oil, as they see that their lamps are losing their light. Holiness and sanctification cannot be bought. They are issues of the heart. All is made ready and it is time to close the doors. Those who went in search for extra oil return but it will be too late to enter in (Matthew 25:1-13).
Five days after Day of Atonement is the final celebration called the Feast of Tabernacles(also called Sukkot or Booths) and it is a seven-day Feast of great joy called the Wedding Supper of the Lamb. This is the wedding reception after the wedding (Revelation 19:9). The first day and the eighth day are High Holy Days and Sabbaths unto Yahweh. All at the reception will carry a lulav (the bridal bouquet) made from boughs of different species of trees and wave them before the Messiah. Believers are to live in booths for the week to cause us to remember how the Children of Israel lived in temporary dwellings in the Wilderness in their betrothal season with their Bridegroom. It is here that believers remind themselves of the great provision of Yahweh, His loving care over them and His great delivery.
The eighth day at the end of the seven-day celebration of Sukkot/Tabernacles is a Sabbath. This day is a quiet, day of rest, holy time of reflection representing our final rest in the Messiah/Mashiach, the goal of our redemption. It is a very special time, after all the wedding guests have returned home, where the Bridegroom says to the Bride “Let us linger one more day and savor this moment together.” This day represents a thousand years. Many in Judah’s camp have placed a manmade feast over top of the Eighth day calling it Simchat Torah/Rejoicing in the Torah. To conceal this one day from the Bride will restrain her from entering her destiny. This day is called the Millennial Kingdom – a thousand years and is when the true bride, the wise virgin, will be with her Bridegroom a thousand years. Therefore it is important that the Bride is watchful and not off at a manmade celebration (Hebrews 3-8; Leviticus 23:33-36; Psalms 90:4; 2 Peter 3:8).
Man’s Form of Worship
In history, there have been many who have tried to suppress the observance of Yahweh’s Feasts and even replace them with pagan celebrations from Babylon to worship God. These pagan feasts continue today. They are designed to keep the children of Yahweh from their appointment with the returning Bridegroom and from realizing their true identity in the commonwealth of Israel. This ultimately keeps believers from entering the Land. This is the sin of Jeroboam and the Spirit of Balaam. Many think the Babylonian feasts (Christmas and Easter) are of Yahweh, but they are not. People who search Scripture will soon see that those holi-days have never been of Yahweh. They are manmade and given an appearance of religious worship to make them look acceptable (Isaiah chapter 1; Jude 1:11; Revelation 2:14).
Apart from the Scriptures, we have many resources available to us today to help expose the various forms of pagan Babylonian worship. We can no longer hide or avoid these truths. As believers, we need to acknowledge the TRUE worship of Yahweh and His Feasts by entering into them. Yahweh is calling us to be a holy nation and a set-apart royal priesthood, but how can we if we allow ourselves to be contaminated by upholding worldly worship. Mixing His Feast Days like Easter with Passover is an abomination in His sight.
Yeshua fulfilled the first four appointed times when He came as the sacrificial Lamb and He will fulfill the last three appointed times when He returns as the reigning King. The invitations have been sent out. Will believers partake in the Feasts He has prepared for us, and as Brides, will we come out to meet our Bridegroom with extra oil, dressed in pure linen garments ready to enter our wedding day? Remember the proper response to our Bridegroom, Yeshua Ha Mashiach...
There is a huge proposal, purpose and inheritance waiting those who choose to walk and dwell with Him in His Kingdom today.
continues tomorrow...
"SEE"
(Weekly Reading>>Deuteronomy 11:26-16:17, Isaiah 44:11-45:5, 1 Corinthians 5:9-13, 1 John 4:1-6)
Yeshua/Jesus, the Lamb slain from before the creation of the world, is serving in a heavenly Tabernacle. He is the sacrifice that now lives in us. Today, we represent His heavenly Tabernacle on earth. The Tabernacle is a representation of the Covenant given to David. Because of this, we are part of the Davidic Covenant Yeshua renewed and when we partake in the bread and wine as a remembrance of that Covenant our tithe should also be presented. We are not to separate the bread, the wine and the tithe. They are eternal and carry an eternal blessing for those who obey (Hebrews chapters 7-9).
Currently less than 2.7% of believers are remembering to tithe on a regular basis. Not giving the tithe is one of the blockages that prevent Yahweh’s blessings from flowing in our lives (Malachi 3:8-10). We are of the royal priesthood of the Messiah, and as priests offering sacrifices, partaking in the bread and the wine are a confirmation to the Covenant that we have agreed to live by. We are His dwelling place. May believers be faithful to this priesthood calling and bring our holy tithes and offerings to HIM, Yeshua Ha Mashiach/Jesus Christ.
Deuteronomy 12:11 “Yahweh will choose as a dwelling for his Name, there you are to bring everything I command you: your burnt offerings and sacrifices, your tithes and special gifts, and all the choice possessions you have vowed to Yahweh.”
Isaiah 66:1 “Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool. Where is the house you will build for me? Where will my resting-place be?”
Isaiah 66:1 “Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool. Where is the house you will build for me? Where will my resting-place be?”
1 Corinthians 3:16-17, 6:15 Paul said, “Don’t you [Believers] know that you yourselves are Yahweh’s temple and that Yahweh’s Spirit lives in you? Yahweh’s temple is sacred, and you are that temple. Do you not know that your bodies are members of Yeshua Himself?”
Romans 6:1 Paul said, “Do we [Believers] keep on sinning now that we have been purified? No!”
It is up to us to keep our hearts clean and stay pure in thought and deed. This releases Yahweh to position us into holiness by His Spirit (1 Corinthians 1:30). It is a sacrifice to forgive someone who has hurt and wronged us. It is a sacrifice to offer our self to someone in need. It is a sacrifice to love someone who does not love us in return. May we worship the Father in Spirit and in Truth, and may our tithe be offered from our hearts with joy (John 4:19-24).
The Feasts of Yahweh
Deuteronomy 16:1-17 “Three times a year ALL your men [Believers] must appear before Yahweh at the place He will choose: At the Feast of Unleavened Bread [Passover], the Feast of Weeks [Shavuot/Pentecost] and the Feast of Tabernacles [Sukkot] (Deuteronomy 16:16).”
All Yahweh’s feasts are prophetic and are appointments of time where He has said He will meet with us.
The Spring Feasts come first, beginning in the first month of the biblical Hebrew calendar called Aviv during the first barley harvest. We are to celebrate the Passover on the same eve as when the Israelites left Egypt. It is a night of perpetual remembrance, a time when together we are to eat roasted lamb, unleavened bread and bitter herbs, and share the story of the Exodus of our ancestors. It is the time when Yeshua/Jesus also chose His Bride, as it is a type of our salvation/deliverance. The Feast of Unleavened Bread starts after Passover and continues for seven days. The first and last days of this Feast are to be High Holy Days, Sabbaths unto Yahweh. This is a holy time, a time of remembering Yahweh’s redemption, as Yeshua is our Sacrificial Passover Lamb who paid the price for our redemption and became the Firstfruits from the dead. In Yeshua we all are now His firstfruits from the dead (Colossians 3:1-17).
Believers are instructed to count seven weeks, seven Sabbaths numbering 49 days weeks after the Passover. On the next day on Yahweh’s calendar called Feast of Weeks or Shavuot (Pentecost). This Feast is where Moses received the Torah on Mount Sinai, the moral and ethical instructions for the Children of Israel. This is the official Marriage Covenant/ketubah called the Gospel for His betrothed Bride. When Moses returned to camp with the ketubah he saw the newly betrothed Bride worshipping God through the form of an idol - a golden calf. That day three thousand died. On this same Feast Day, thousands of generations later, Yeshua fulfilled Yahweh’s Word by writing the Torah onto the tablets of their hearts by His finger of authority (principles). In this way He fulfilled the prophesy in Jeremiah 31 (repeated in Hebrews 8:8-10). On that day three thousand were restored (Acts 2).
Hebrews 8:8-10 “Because finding fault with them, He says: ‘Behold, the days are coming, says Yahweh, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah - not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they did not continue in My covenant, and I disregarded them, says Yahweh. For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says Yahweh: I will put My laws in their mind and write them on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people’ ”(Jeremiah 31:31-33).
Following the Spring appointed times, there are three Fall appointed times on Yahweh’s calendar all in the seventh month on the Biblical Hebrew calendar, called Tishrei. Both Houses of Israel (the House of Judah and those sojourning with them and the House of Israel and their companions) are waiting for the fulfillment of these appointed times(appointments) with great anticipation, as these last three Holi-days(Holy Days) are the call of the Bridegroom beckoning His Bride to come to her wedding.
The New Moon/Rosh Chodesh festival falls on the first day of each month at the sighting of the new moon. It is the New Moon that reminds the Bride (believers walking in their redemption), of all her appointments with her husband. On each New Moon, Yahweh has His trumpets(shofar) sound to call the Bride to prepare for Him. It will be at the last trumpet that the announcement/cry has been made that the Bridegroom has come for His Bride!
The Fall appointed times start with Day of Trumpets or the Day of Blowing. The Jewish (Judeans / House of Judah) people have replaced it with Rosh Ha Shannah, a manmade(tradition) celebration of their secular New Year, which has nothing to do with Yahweh’s appointed time of Trumpets nor the true biblical New Year which is in the first month during spring according to scripture not the seventh month.
Exodus 12:2 This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you.
Day of Trumpets falls on the first sighting of the seventh New Moon/Rosh Chodesh and heralds in the Bridegroom by the blowing of Trumpets. The expectant Bride has been walking in all the appointments and Covenants and has plenty of extra oil for her lamp. All spots or wrinkles (personal sins) have been cleansed and removed, and her priestly wedding garment made ready. She checks her heart and makes right any adjustments before her wedding day. No one knows the exact day or hour of the Groom’s return, only the Father knows but we do know the time and season. Interesting that Trumpets is the only Feast day which lands on a "New Moon" which can last for two or three days as the case this year but when He commands that last new moon to appear and the last trump to cry out– the doors will open for the approaching King/Bridegroom. The Bride, having her sanctification process complete, is ready to take her lamp and proceed out to meet Him. Ten days of awe and perfection are fulfilled as the two come together to take their place (Matthew 25:1-13; Revelation 19:7-9).
The tenth day of the seventh month is the Day of Atonement. It is the holiest day of the year representing the wedding day where believers will all appear before Yahweh. The Bride has made herself ready. She has been faithful to personally prepare her heart/white linen garments before the last trumpet sounded. Unfortunately there will be some Brides lacking oil (wisdom, sanctification and holiness) who leave just before the wedding takes place to buy extra oil, as they see that their lamps are losing their light. Holiness and sanctification cannot be bought. They are issues of the heart. All is made ready and it is time to close the doors. Those who went in search for extra oil return but it will be too late to enter in (Matthew 25:1-13).
Matthew 25:10-13 “And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came, and those who were ready went in with him to the wedding; and the door was shut. Afterward the other virgins came also, saying, ‘Lord, Lord, open to us!’ But he answered and said, ‘Assuredly, I say to you, I do not know you.’ Watch therefore, for you know neither the day nor the hour in which the Son of Man is coming.”
Five days after Day of Atonement is the final celebration called the Feast of Tabernacles(also called Sukkot or Booths) and it is a seven-day Feast of great joy called the Wedding Supper of the Lamb. This is the wedding reception after the wedding (Revelation 19:9). The first day and the eighth day are High Holy Days and Sabbaths unto Yahweh. All at the reception will carry a lulav (the bridal bouquet) made from boughs of different species of trees and wave them before the Messiah. Believers are to live in booths for the week to cause us to remember how the Children of Israel lived in temporary dwellings in the Wilderness in their betrothal season with their Bridegroom. It is here that believers remind themselves of the great provision of Yahweh, His loving care over them and His great delivery.
The eighth day at the end of the seven-day celebration of Sukkot/Tabernacles is a Sabbath. This day is a quiet, day of rest, holy time of reflection representing our final rest in the Messiah/Mashiach, the goal of our redemption. It is a very special time, after all the wedding guests have returned home, where the Bridegroom says to the Bride “Let us linger one more day and savor this moment together.” This day represents a thousand years. Many in Judah’s camp have placed a manmade feast over top of the Eighth day calling it Simchat Torah/Rejoicing in the Torah. To conceal this one day from the Bride will restrain her from entering her destiny. This day is called the Millennial Kingdom – a thousand years and is when the true bride, the wise virgin, will be with her Bridegroom a thousand years. Therefore it is important that the Bride is watchful and not off at a manmade celebration (Hebrews 3-8; Leviticus 23:33-36; Psalms 90:4; 2 Peter 3:8).
2 Peter 3:8 “But, beloved, do not forget this one thing, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.”
Revelation 20:4-6 “Then I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for their witness to Jesus and for the word of God, who had not worshiped the beast or his image, and had not received his mark on their foreheads or on their hands. And they lived and reigned with Christ for a thousand years. But the rest of the dead did not live again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection. Blessed and holy is he who has part in the first resurrection. Over such the second death has no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with Him a thousand years.”
Revelation 20:4-6 “Then I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for their witness to Jesus and for the word of God, who had not worshiped the beast or his image, and had not received his mark on their foreheads or on their hands. And they lived and reigned with Christ for a thousand years. But the rest of the dead did not live again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection. Blessed and holy is he who has part in the first resurrection. Over such the second death has no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with Him a thousand years.”
Man’s Form of Worship
In history, there have been many who have tried to suppress the observance of Yahweh’s Feasts and even replace them with pagan celebrations from Babylon to worship God. These pagan feasts continue today. They are designed to keep the children of Yahweh from their appointment with the returning Bridegroom and from realizing their true identity in the commonwealth of Israel. This ultimately keeps believers from entering the Land. This is the sin of Jeroboam and the Spirit of Balaam. Many think the Babylonian feasts (Christmas and Easter) are of Yahweh, but they are not. People who search Scripture will soon see that those holi-days have never been of Yahweh. They are manmade and given an appearance of religious worship to make them look acceptable (Isaiah chapter 1; Jude 1:11; Revelation 2:14).
Exodus 32:4-6 “And he received the gold from their hand, and he fashioned it with an engraving tool, and made a molded calf. Then they said, ‘This is your god, O Israel, that brought you out of the land of Egypt!’ So when Aaron saw it, he built an altar before it. And Aaron made a proclamation and said, ‘Tomorrow is a feast to the LORD.’ Then they rose early on the next day, offered burnt offerings, and brought peace offerings; and the people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.”
Apart from the Scriptures, we have many resources available to us today to help expose the various forms of pagan Babylonian worship. We can no longer hide or avoid these truths. As believers, we need to acknowledge the TRUE worship of Yahweh and His Feasts by entering into them. Yahweh is calling us to be a holy nation and a set-apart royal priesthood, but how can we if we allow ourselves to be contaminated by upholding worldly worship. Mixing His Feast Days like Easter with Passover is an abomination in His sight.
Yeshua fulfilled the first four appointed times when He came as the sacrificial Lamb and He will fulfill the last three appointed times when He returns as the reigning King. The invitations have been sent out. Will believers partake in the Feasts He has prepared for us, and as Brides, will we come out to meet our Bridegroom with extra oil, dressed in pure linen garments ready to enter our wedding day? Remember the proper response to our Bridegroom, Yeshua Ha Mashiach...
Exodus 24:7 “Then he took the Book of the Covenant [ketubah] and read in the hearing of the people. And they said, ‘All that the LORD/Yahweh has said we will do, and be obedient.’”
There is a huge proposal, purpose and inheritance waiting those who choose to walk and dwell with Him in His Kingdom today.
Isaiah 54:11 to 55:5 “All your sons will be taught by Yahweh and great will be your children’s peace. In righteousness (obedience) you will be established: tyranny will be far from you; you will have nothing to fear, terror will be far removed; it will not come near you. If anyone does attack you, it will not be my doing; whoever attacks you will surrender to you. Come, all you who are thirsty, come to the waters; and you who have no money, come, buy and eat! Come; buy wine and milk without money and without cost. Why spend money on what is not bread, and your labor on what does not satisfy? Listen, listen to me, and eat what is good, and your soul will delight in the richest of fare. Give ear and come to me; hear me, that your soul may live. I will make an everlasting covenant with you, my faithful love promised to David.”
continues tomorrow...